The Cook's Oracle, and Housekeeper's Manual - Containing Receipts for Cookery and Directions for Carving #227435

It has been his aim to' render food acceptable to the palate, without being expensive to the purse, or offensive to the stomach; nourishing without being inflammatory, and savoury without being surfeiting; constantly endea vouring to hold the balance equal, between the agreeable and the wholesome, the epicure and the economist.